Sport: The Rocket's Slam

In a half century of amateur tennis, only one man has achieved a grand
slam of the game's four major tournamentsDon Budge, who in
1938 swept
the Australian, French, Wimbledon and U.S. championships.
Last week another name went into the record book beside
Budge's. At Forest Hills, N.Y., Rod ("Rocket") Laver, a deceptively
small (5 ft. 9 in.), bowlegged Australian, scored a smashing victory in
the U.S. championships to complete his own remarkable sweep and match
Budge's 24-year-old record. Laver did it by defeating Fellow Aussie Roy
Emerson, the player who had...